516  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^ptembefjS?' 
these  gentlemen  asked  to  report  at  the  next  session.  A  motion  to  have  the 
committees  of  the  Association  receive  financial  aid  for  any  help  supplied  the 
National  Committee  on  Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  was  lost. 
The  Section  then  proceeded  to  nominate  the  officers  for  the  coming  year.  Mr. 
Alpers,  the  Secretary  of  the  Section,  was  proposed  for  Chairman.  Prof.  Sadtler 
was  also  put  in  nomination  for  a  second  term,  but  declined  to  have  his  name 
voted  on.  Profs.  Coblentz  and  Scoville  were  named  for  the  Secretaryship. 
The  Section  then  adjourned  until  8.15  p.m.  At  3  p.m.,  the  members  left  the 
Windsor  Hotel  for  an  electric  car  ride  through  the  city,  Outremont,  Cote  des 
Neiges,  etc. 
A  second  session  was  convened  in  the  evening  at  8.15.  After  Chairman 
Sadtler  called  the  session  to  order,  Secretary  Alpers  read  the  minutes  of  the 
first  session,  which  were  adopted  as  read.  The  session  then  proceeded  to  vote 
for  the  candidates  for  office  nominated  at  the  previous  session.  Mr.  Alpers 
was  unanimously  elected  Chairman.  The  session  balloted  for  the  gentlemen 
named  for  the  office  of  secretary.  Prof.  Coblentz  received  the  greater  number 
of  votes,  hence  was  elected.  His  appointment  was  afterwards  made  unanimous. 
The  first  business  of  the  session  was  the  reading  and  discussion  of  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.  A  considerable  part  of  the 
report  was  composed  of  suggestions  to  substitute  for  essential  oils  artificially 
prepared  substances,  of  which  the  oils  in  the  main  are  composed,  and  the 
establishment  of  assay  processes  for  certain  oils.  Very  few  of  the  members 
were  in  favor  of  the  change  to  replace  the  natural  oils  in  the  Pharmacopoeia 
with  these  artificial  products,  but  an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  members  pres- 
ent was  against  this  replacement ;  however,  all  agreed  that  methods  of  assay 
were  desirable,  and  that  variations  in  percentage  content  of  important  constitu- 
ents should  be  decided  upon  and  limited.  This  matter,  as,  indeed,  most  of  the 
report,  was  referred  to  the  Special  Research  Committee.  A  considerable  and 
warm  discussion  followed  the  reading  of  the  suggestion  of  the  reporting  Com- 
mittee, to  drop  whiskey,  brandy  and  the  wines  from  the  Pharmacopoeia.  Mr. 
Ebert  claimed  such  an  action  would  favor  getting  alcohol  without  a  license,  as 
no  beverages  would  then  be  official.  Much  interest  was  elicited,  and  the  mat- 
ter was  finally  put  in  a  motion  to  be  voted  on.  The  majority  were  for  retaining 
these  articles.  There  were  a  number  of  other  articles  mentioned  in  the  report, 
but  their  consideration  was  referred  either  to  the  Special  Research  Committee 
or  to  the  Section  on  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  of  the  American  Medical 
Association. 
Prof.  Bartley,  Chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  to  consider  the  advis- 
ability of  continuing  the  Special  Research  Committee,  and  of  arranging  for  the 
election  of  its  members,  reported  that  it  was  deemed  favorable  to  elect  four 
members  to  serve  on  the  committee  in  question,  in  connection  with  the  Chair- 
man of  the  Scientific  Section  and  the  same  officer  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  both  e x -officio  ;  that  two  of  the  four  be  elected 
this  year  for  two  years,  and  the  other  two  for  one  year,  thus  making  the  body 
perpetual.  The  report  was  received  and  adopted.  The  names  of  the  following 
gentlemen  were  presented  to  the  meeting  for  choice  :  Messrs.  Prescott,  Lloyd, 
Patch,  Coblentz,  Trimble,  Dohme  and  Kremers.  The  two  gentlemen  receiving 
the  highest  numbers  of  votes  were  to  be  declared  elected  for  two  years,  and  the 
two  receiving  the  next  highest  numbers  were  to  serve  for  one  year.  Profs. 
